HS 103 - Making of the Modern World: United States II

(3.00 cr.)

Covers the history of the United States since the Civil War as it grows into an industrial and international power and as it struggles to transform itself from a nineteenth-century republic that restricts citizenship rights along racial and gender lines into a diverse modern society. Topics include the Reconstruction, urban/industrial development and reform; immigration and the expansion and contraction of democracy in the early twentieth century; the world wars; the Great Depression; postwar culture and society; the impact of the Cold War; social movements; and the fracturing of consensus. GT/IU